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Clinton Loosely Compares Her White House Fight to JFK's Campaign
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ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton confidently barnstormed West Virginia Monday, where she is significantly leading in the polls. The Senator, speaking in Clear Fork, WV, said that JFK was down when he was running but, had the support of the Mountain State.
“It was West Virginia that made it possible for John Kennedy to become president. Now John Kennedy didn’t have the number of delegates he needed when he went to the convention in 1960, he had something equally as important. He had West Virginia behind him.”
The New York Senator praised the beauty of the state calling it “heaven,” but added that help was needed to fix the condition of the roads that wind through the mountainous state. Clinton mentioned providing “federal government help to make sure you can get around West Virginia. It isn’t easy. It is almost heaven, don’t get me wrong, but you know it’s not easy.”
Clinton spoke about the resilience of this country – but also perhaps her perseverance in the race.
“We are always fighting for a better tomorrow. Even when times are tough and it looks like the deck is stacked against you – Americans are resilient, boy West Virginians are sure resilient,” Clinton said.
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Posted by: reaganfan | May 13, 2008 12:05:38 AM
See, when someone with experience comes along they can totally relate to history!
Posted by: Darla | May 13, 2008 12:08:06 AM
you american sheepol do not understand.
Patriotic innorants that wave flags arround for everything and kill people for anything, even without prof. Now, I can even torture your people and all because I might thing they are terrorist. But wait a minute, I was the same guy that said osama was the one responsible for 911, o but that wasnt true. I was the same guy that said Saddan had weapons of mass destruction, ah o yeah that wasnt true. But then you guys elected me twice, now that Im going out of the house, I HOPE you idiots learned something. I took your rights away, your money and incredibly enough you guys still praise me, incredible. Obviously you guys know that iM NOT Bush just for the punctuation because as bad as it is is miles ahead of anything that Mr bush can write or say, im just an American like you. oPEN your heads an read and research because you might find out things that are going to surprize you.
Posted by: Mr Bush | May 13, 2008 1:30:01 PM
Gee Hillary, I think you need a history lesson. It was not West Virginia that put John Kennedy over the top at the 1960 Democratic convention. It was Wyoming. Another example of Hillary's incompetence or attempt to re-write history in order to fit her needs.
Posted by: PhilBgood | May 13, 2008 4:22:19 PM
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